Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
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There are an absurd amount of villains being added to Gotham’s second season, most of which are featured in its first trailer above. But the real treat is seeing Cameron Monaghan’s return as Jerome, a.k.a. The Kid Who Will Probably Become the Joker, because he might be the character who actually saves this show. I…
Every morning when I wake up, I thank the deities I do not believe in that somehow the Ash Vs. Evil Dead TV series is actually a thing that’s happening, and that it looks so damn good despite it being more than 20 years since Army of Darkness premiered. This brief but excellent new trailer…
There’s this man in the Book of John who storms into a church, and flies into a rage when he sees the salesmen and moneychangers in this house of worship. He begins violently breaking down the tables where these people are seated. In the book, he is so angry he literally takes the time to…
Musicians, writers, and other creative folk are still scratching their heads over the cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: “The New Making It” — packaged online as “The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t” — looked at how the Internet economy, instead of destroying creative careers, had redrawn them in “complicated and unexpected ways.” The story’s…
‘The rapacious Ms. Huffington seems to believe that journalism skills are worth nothing’ David Sze, who works for Arianna Huffington, sent this note to veteran journalist Lauren Lipton last week: Subject: Inquiry from Arianna Huffington’s office: Hi Lauren, I’m David, a Research Editor from Arianna Huffington’s office. Arianna is currently working on a book about…
Every amazing story has an Act II, a phase during which the would-be-hero is knocked down, face in the dirt, hurt or frustrated to the point of giving up then ultimately rising to the challenge. The lives of the best leaders among us often follow the same parable. But how exactly do we pick ourselves up?…
Justice Republicans Say You Should Be Able To Carry Guns Everywhere. This Proves They Don’t Mean It. by Scott Keyes Aug 25, 2015 8:00am “Get rid of gun free zones,” Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tweeted after a gunman massacred five in Chattanooga last month. “Gun-free zones an easy target for killers” an opinion…
Take a moment to drink in the glory of Shrek the Sheep. Shrek really, really, really did not like getting his hair cut. So for six years, this New Zealand libertarian managed to avoid spring shearings by hiding in a cave. By the time he was found in 2004, his owners couldn’t even tell he…
Kate Mara playing reporter Zoe Barnes in Netflix original series “House of Cards” (Melinda Sue Gordon/Netflix) I have made well-known my dislike for the (once) critically-acclaimed Netflix show”House of Cards.” When I first published my take on the corrosive effects of how the show portrayed politics — and especially journalism and, double especially, female reporters…